Apple Gives Microsoft A Little Payback And Lets The World Laugh
02.06.07 - 12:42pm
The battle between Apple and Microsoft is starting to show through their plastered smiles. Well, Steve Jobs still has his on, however Bill Gate’s smile is definitely cracking.
Recently in an interview Bill Gates let off some of his held in, frustrated (the Zune is dead) steam and let it go regarding Apple’s security, it’s ads and its claims about its OS innovation saying:
“I don’t even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you’re really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it?”
Later in the interview he spoke on what seemed to be about the ‘Month of Apple Bugs” project, created by Microsoft, which intended to highlight a new Mac security issue every day for the month of January 2007.
“Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
In spite of the “Month of Apple Bugs’ project there has been far less Mac viruses than Windows machine viruses eating their way through the virtual world of the internet. So perhaps Apple is right when they say in their ad, “Why upgrade to a Vista when you can upgrade past it?”
Apple has in turn responded to Microsoft’s accusations regarding their security with a laugh - creating an ad that spoofs Vista’s security and has the whole world buzzing. To see the ad click here, then watch the one marked security.
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